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It was a big Tuesday for BiSH. First they dropped an MV for “CAN WE STiLL BE??”, the opening track off their recent album, GOiNG TO DESTRUCTiON.
They followed this announcement with the welcome news that Aina the End, Cent Chihiro Chittiii and Hashiyasume Atsuko had completed their quarantine periods following their recent COVID diagnoses and would all be resuming activities again .
Why is idol so quiet this week? I have energy and opportunity to post but very little to post about! Case in point would be this fun little item from DAIDAIDAI, about whom I am usually bursting with enthusiasm and always happy to post, except when the item in question is definitely something for the Weekender, except that if I don’t post now, nothing will be posted and boy is that undesirable, so.
With that in mind, if you’ve ever wanted isolated music-only clips from DAIDAIDAI’s music with no vocals at all for your own personal listening/remixing/vaporwave insanity needs, this appears to be your chance to do it the easy way:
『SOUNDTRACK』只今よりデータ販売スタート！
これまでライブで使用されたインスト楽曲・BGMを集めた音源集です。全曲リマスター&高音質データ他を収録。
※全曲インスト音源です。メンバーの声は収録されてません。https://t.co/cDPqAnmIhU https://t.co/uPAg68HcM4
— 代代代 Official info. (@daidaidai_info) August 21, 2021
Shit like this makes me wish I had the wherewithal to get into mixing. Sampling is always cool, but I’m a mashups kind of person, so I’d be trying out some of these beats with everything from Run-DMC to Hanako-san, just to see what worked best.
It feels like basically yesterday that we were lamenting the departure of our dear Yuna from PassCode. I think everyone who follows them was immediately curious to see who would replace her in the group, right down to some obligatory dream casting. And yet somehow I allowed myself a moment of pleasant surprise when this tweet popped up a little while ago:
【お知らせ】
PassCode新メンバーとして「有馬えみり( @passcode_Emily )」が加入致しました。
新体制にて、これからも精一杯前を向いて歩んで参ります。皆様、これからもご声援のほど、宜しくお願い致します。 pic.twitter.com/eVOvdHE8Bq
— PassCodeオフィシャル (@passcodeO) August 22, 2021
Yep, that’s ex-LADYBABY Emily, that is undeniably a very good harsh singer but one of the more oddly utilized ones in her old group. The timing of it all suggests that she was already in the wings before Yuna’s retirement announcement, sure, but frankly you probably could have had her on retainer ever since LADYBABY went under and barely missed a beat — the two singers’ styles aren’t quite the same, but honestly? Natural fit, right timing, easy thing for fans to accept. Emily officially joins in a few weeks at the kickoff of a quick Zepp tour prior to the close of the STRIVE tour pre-Budokan, so good opportunities for those who actually can to properly greet the new girl.
Good job, PassCode, and welcome, Emily!
We’ll, we’re two weeks late to this party and you really do run out of things to say about SHINGEKI after a while, so this is going to be one of the least interesting posts in the long, agonizing history of Homicidols Dot Com. But hey, new MV, completely bonkers, you know the drill:
I actually unironically love it! Also unironically love this tweet for just plain putting it out there:
神激とは
①Clean・Rap・Scream・Manipulatorによる7人編成バンドユニット
アイドルにもバンドにも無い新しいスタイル
②LIVEではDAWからのパラアウトやリアンプで従来のオケでは再現出来ない音の作り込みリズムマシンやギターをリアルタイム演奏
③メタルコアとラップを軸に先の読めないプログレ展開 pic.twitter.com/3VxmorY5Dv— 神激「神使轟く、激情の如く。」 (@shingeki_rock) August 11, 2021
Remember, this group is going to Budokan.
So as I was saying before, I had pretty high hopes for this BiSH album (out now!), and they graced us this morning with another MV from it, which:
I am supposed to be working right now, so this is also very short, so let’s suffice it to say that while the opening worried me that we had another “Orchestra” clone, “BE READY” here is more reminiscent of stuff from the FAKE METAL JACKET era, which for my money was actually the superior point in BiSH anthems, though now it’s both grown up and does include some tropes familiar to anybody who likes WACK artists or even just SCRAMBLES products.
I get to listen to the album today and remain pretty stoked about it.
Got to wake up to very bad news this morning. I’ll thank Papermaiden for messaging it without trying to soften the blow: “Yuna out of PassCode.”
【お知らせ】
今田夢菜についてのご報告https://t.co/Iup1sg8qLz
— PassCodeオフィシャル (@passcodeO) August 3, 2021
It’s been a few years since Yuna first went on hiatus due to an ovarian cyst, and the way her and management’s statement reads, the pressure of performing eventually just got to be too much. You know she was taking a break from the STRIVE tour over the last several weeks — a break that in retrospect feels more like “take a few weeks off and think about it” than “get your rest” — so I can’t blame her for not feeling like coming back was the way to go. Continue reading
Boy, was I excited when I saw this pop up in the queue the other day. We don’t ever hear enough from GRATIA-ALA, to the point where I’m not even going to pretend to know anything about them anymore. But I enjoyed them before, I must enjoy them again, right?
What the absolute hell was that! I give it lots of points for a nice hook and having the sheer audacity to smash all of that stuff together into a single track. How can you even be mad about it? Absolute chaos.
I’ve just always wanted to title a post this, thanks Lui
The new PIGGS single hits stores in a few days, and mid-last week they released the second MV from it (first), and it’s still not the title track, so that leaves a great deal of hope in there being yet another video coming our way. But for the whole reason that I got a NIN vibe before even listening to the thing, here’s “Piggy”:
I think I figured out a pattern when it comes to BiSH in their “officially a big deal” era — the more seriously a release is treated by the group, the higher the likelihood that it might actually be kind of butt. Take for example Letters from last year. Yes, it did very literally top the charts; on the other hand, the only sentiment I got from fans in this particular circle was that the record was a disappointment. A win for WACK and Avex for sure, maybe less so for us. But when the announcement about GOiNG TO DESTRUCTiON landed a few weeks ago, I got a truly giddy feeling: Here was the BiSH that I love most, on the one hand playing into their old chaos merchants persona while also taking the same to a ridiculous level as a send-up of the self-serious approaches they’ve more recently taken to some of their bigger releases:
【Major 4th AL 発売決定!! & 特報公開!!】
GOiNG TO DESTRUCTiON
2021.08.04 ON SALE約2年1ヶ月ぶりのフルアルバム。
破壊盤も。
よろ。❏アルバム特設サイトhttps://t.co/tNA31KmpTT#BiSHGOiNGTODESTRUCTiON #BiSH破壊 pic.twitter.com/iCZNadqJ1c
— BiSHオフィシャル (@BiSHidol) May 25, 2021
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Definitely didn’t expect to get another ASP MV so in the wake of their debut album (now more than a full month old), but gift horses and mouths and all that, so of course I joined many among you in excitedly clicking that link when it dropped yesterday. And then, like many among you, I watched first in confusion and then rapt horror! Oh, and the song is a delicious and powerful anthem that I think we’re only going to grow to appreciate more and more over time!
